Existential dread of facing the day?

Or is that just me?

I'm trying to decide between facing another day or ending it all. Some days it takes a little more thought to justify getting up.

Boot up

It is just part of their morning ritual.

I like to sit and drink my coffee after I eat breakfast. It is just a bit of Me time.

I need some time to review the life choices that led me to this.

The second my body wakes up, I am in pain and want to throw up. It takes me about 10-15 minutes to stretch, adjust to the pain, and power through the nausea.

the meme is about how it can be hard to face the day given work/political concerns

I just need to compose my will to get up. Then it's coffee brewing ritual.

My brain and body don't immediately activate when I wake up.

Think of it like when you had to wait several minutes for Windows 98 to boot from a slow mechanical HDD platter lol!!

Tell us you don’t have a full time job without telling us.

depression for me

I'm sometimes tired when I awake, if I didn't get enough sleep the night before. Also, it's kind of like the ADHD thing when you know you should do stuff, but you just sit there consciously doing nothing, although you don't want to be. That also sometimes happens for a bit until I finally start doing stuff.

When i wake up, my body is immediately ready. But my mind takes a lot longer to fully boot. During that in between time you can talk to me. But my brain won't register you.

I typically wake up dehydrated AF. So I wake up, drink the glass of water I set out next to me the night before, and wait to not feel like I have a whole ecosystem growing in my mouth. It's 5-10 min for me, then it's up, toilet, restart work laptop, make coffee, greet my Person, and finally login to work laptop for the work day. 8 second commute to my work desk is choice.

I usually sleep so deep that after I wake up I'm still semi-conscious for some time and i'm afraid that if i stand up i might land on my face. All gears are definitely not working right away.

The other ten minutes is just existential dread.

Not sure what memes you are referring to. Sometimes I sit or lie in bed for a bit to get my thoughts in order, process my weird dream, listen to the birds or just enjoy not having to be in a hurry. Sometimes I just want to postpone standing up because I know I will have to sit in front of the damn computer all day again. Sometimes I stand up immediately.

I have envied people who are fully aware and alert and ready when they wake up.

For me, it takes longer than a few minutes

Why, what do you do?

Preparing mentally to sit and stare for 8 hours.

Fighting that urge to lay back down

I'm tired and can't be bothered to get out of bed yet, need to wake up a bit more.

Powering through the horror takes time.

Im tired, thats me tryin to get enough strenght to get up

In my case it just takes a while to get the gears running, but it’s usually 5 minutes at most

Biological clock says: You are not ready yet. Still muscles and cells are tired, they believe they had not enough rest.

This is not a universal phenomenon. This is the result of stress affecting sleep by causing sleep latency problems or the quality of the sleep itself leaving the individual non-refreshed upon waking and needing a refractory period to recover from sleeping before getting out of bed. The reason it's coming up a lot more often is that greater numbers of people are experiencing the health consequences of chronic stress.

Sometimes I'm super groggy when my alarm wakes me up and it takes a while to adjust

Waiting for my back to slowly compress back into place so I can move again lol. Am old.